Tobruk Siege

Tobruk Siege Rommel of the Blitzkrieg had Europe overcome With the Stukas and dive bombing And the Tanks that overrun North Africka would see his tanks il Duce’s troops were beat Aussies took 20,000 Italians At Tobruk in stinking heat In Europe when his tanks arrived The captured did surrender The Poms escaped at Dunkirk The English well remember Morsehead an Aussie General He baited the trap Strategic mines, artillery, cooks manned Italian guns , and ack ack. Tobruk the Panzer tanks came in The rats went down their holes (Desert Rats Aussie Diggers said Lord Haw Haw) They rose behind the tanks Wehrmact soldiers bullet holed 25 pounders fired at just point blank with cooks and Pommy Armour Were thinning German ranks true blue these little charmers So they blew the turrets off 16 of the best Unbeaten until this point A trace of fallen crest 8 long months they dished it out Though Rommel tried again ……….(lost just as many tanks again) He had to wait till the Aussies left To take Tobruk from them Don Johnson 70 years ago, the Afrika Korp would attack the 14,000 Aussies and Tommy Tank men, Also known as Rats. The Tanks rolled into the perimeter, Aussies sprang from their holes and fought the German Soldiers behind the tanks, “We shut the gate behind them” the Aussies said. This thorn in the side in Rommel ‘s mind allowed time for the massive replacement of armour destroyed by Rommel, with American tanks. The siege held for 240 days in what is now today’s , Gaddafi’s Lybria. These Aussies were used to living rough sleeping on the ground walking from town to town in the great depression, they were brought up on roo or pig shooting and the occasional rabbit.